LINK Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back | FiveThirtyEight
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They obviously must be smarter than their religious parents.
Jolanta
Level 9
Dec 13, 2019
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Yes we typically are 
"My friends say I am more empathetic than anyone they know," my daughter Claire, 29, said.
Claire is an atheist, as are her parents.
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Claire, 28, modeled dresses for a friend's pop-up store. 2018.
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Claire, 28, married Matt, 34, at Lake Chelan, WA. September 2018. On the left, I'm in a burgundy dress I made.
LiterateHiker
Level 9
Dec 13, 2019
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Snow in September?
Look at how we are dressed. It's not snow. Lake Chelan is behind us.
They may be leaving religion and its death based program but will the believing boomers take them down with them anyway?
Surfpirate
Level 9
Dec 13, 2019
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This is the best news for the world that there can be. Without the Encumbrance of religion the people of the world might have a chance to fix the fuckups of all the previous generations before we all go extinct.
joeandbarb
Level 7
Dec 13, 2019
4
A joy to read this. I never really considered the thought of a spouse pulling their companion back into religion.
So if I live to be 80, I wonder if I will get to witness the tearing down of multitudes of churches? I hope so.
Heathenman
Level 7
Dec 12, 2019
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Don't tear them down, those buildings can have many uses: homeless shelters, bars, brothels, museums, etc.
@PadraicM Waaay too hard to heat & cool, in most cases, and in cities many have No parking at all, not even for staff.
@PadraicM
Hmmm,. I don't know about that. I have thought of this often in the past. I was a licensed real estate appraiser for years. Churches usually have a lower property tax. Many of them are situated on land which has a higher and better use potential in commercial applications. It may not be cost effective to keep them when they are no longer viable economic enterprises. Please don't get me wrong, many of them have beautiful architecture and I would like to see them repurposed, but the future does not look good for those accumulations of bricks and sticks.
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Dec 12, 2019
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